tingkagol

Exactly why I added that it doesn't have a bad ending, but a sad ending. Kdrama fans tend to think sad ending = bad ending so I took it from there

Both souls are in So Yong's body with Bong Hwan at the helm and So Yong residing at a subconscious level. When Bong Hwan departed back to his own body, both souls took a piece of each other's - Bong Hwan took a bit of So Yong's benevolence, So Yong took a bit of Bong Hwan free-sprited / YOLO personality.

The ending's fine. A happy ending. I personally don't get the negative feedback. The ending's not My Mister-level good, but it's not The Smile Has Left Your Eyes or Reply 1988-level bad either. (Scratch that, neither TSHLYE nor Reply have bad endings, they're just not "happy" endings.)

(spoilers) I posted this on Reddit as well. The last episode was a dud. Hear me out. Early on I began suspecting this guy was suffering from schizophrenia and all the residents lived in his head. Though that didn't happen, the whole series was clearly about the lead's slow descent to insanity. The moment they started showing that he had some disturbing tendencies I knew it was possible he would go kookoo in the end. The antagonist, who was the wisest among the group, also kept propping him up like he was some kind of psycho-messiah when everyone else in the residence was doubting his judgement, all the more reason to believe his plan would eventually work. It felt cheap and kind of contrived actually.

I really liked most of the episodes. And the acting, my god. So good. The entire cast did a phenomenal job. The landlady, the dentist, the pervert Bruce Lee look-alike, and whoever played the insane laughing guy needs to get an award.

However, I did NOT like the last episode & ending. I can appreciate tragic endings, but this just felt cheap and half-cooked. The lead character came in risking his life to save his girlfriend and came out wearing a bracelet with his girlfriend's tooth (and every other victim's). Giant leap there. The first sequence of events (Bruce Lee gets hacked by Landlady, Dentist kills Landlady, Dentist kills Joker guy) was utterly unnecessary and a complete waste of time. I would be more forgiving if Jong-u as "the Dentist" did all the kills (channeling Fight Club), but that wouldn't make sense since the landlady killed the pervert! The episode felt like a movie that had an alternate ending that you could find in the DVD, but instead both were mashed together in the same episode. The "real" ending in the finale rendered the entire first half of the episode completely useless.

I'm at episode 6 and quite frankly, this drama has been mediocre so far. It is self-aware and tries to mock the usual tropes but actually gets trapped in the same Kdrama tropes it ridicules in the first place. 6 episodes in and I still don't care about ANY of the characters. It requires effort to push forward and watch unless you're a super fan of the FL because of Sky Castle.

The network is funneling its international audience to their own streaming site: TFC.tv . It's subscription based. As much as this show is worth watching I wouldn't recommend subscribing to TFC since most shows there are trash, except for this.